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December 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jesse Austin-Stewart, Lecturer, School of Music and Screen Arts, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Getty Images Spotify has just released Spotify Wrapped, its annual end-of-year viral promotional exercise. For New Zealand musicians, however, there was little to get excited about. Spotify Wrapped aims to reflect ... <a title="Spotify Wrapped ghosted NZ music again. Local artists and audiences deserve more" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/spotify-wrapped-ghosted-nz-music-again-local-artists-and-audiences-deserve-more-270802/" aria-label="Read more about Spotify Wrapped ghosted NZ music again. Local artists and audiences deserve more">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand [embedded content] For more than 30 years, residents on Auckland’s Franklin Road have decked out their properties with Christmas decorations for the rest of the city to enjoy. Despite prevalent rumours and conspiracy theories that the popular street-wide display is “funded by the electricity companies” or “organised by the council”, Roscoe ... <a title="‘A gift for the people’: Switch flicked for Franklin Road Christmas lights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/a-gift-for-the-people-switch-flicked-for-franklin-road-christmas-lights/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A gift for the people’: Switch flicked for Franklin Road Christmas lights">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Rutherford Street, between Melling Link and Connolly Street, is closed. X / NZ Transport Agency A fuel truck has collided with a building on Lower Hutt’s Rutherford Street, seriously injuring one person, RNZ understands. Rutherford Street, between Melling Link and Connolly Street, is closed after the single-vehicle crash about 5.30am on ... <a title="Major Lower Hutt road closed for hours as fuel truck hits building" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/major-lower-hutt-road-closed-for-hours-as-fuel-truck-hits-building/" aria-label="Read more about Major Lower Hutt road closed for hours as fuel truck hits building">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bram Servais, PhD Candidate Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne A microelectrode array covered with neurons. Bram Servais As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational hardware. ... <a title="How scientists are growing computers from human brain cells – and why they want to keep doing it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/how-scientists-are-growing-computers-from-human-brain-cells-and-why-they-want-to-keep-doing-it-270464/" aria-label="Read more about How scientists are growing computers from human brain cells – and why they want to keep doing it">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Coppel, Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne Myanmar’s military regime has announced elections will be held in three phases, starting on December 28 and concluding in January. Two outcomes are certain: first, the military-aligned party will be recorded as winning and, second, the government in exile ... <a title="Myanmar’s military will no doubt win this month’s sham elections. But could a shake-up follow?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/myanmars-military-will-no-doubt-win-this-months-sham-elections-but-could-a-shake-up-follow-269793/" aria-label="Read more about Myanmar’s military will no doubt win this month’s sham elections. But could a shake-up follow?">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Webb, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute; Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney Summer’s here and after a wet spring in many parts of Australia, mosquitoes are out in force. Insect repellent has become a routine requirement for time outdoors. ... <a title="Are mozzie repellents safe to use? And do I really need them in Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/are-mozzie-repellents-safe-to-use-and-do-i-really-need-them-in-australia-267974/" aria-label="Read more about Are mozzie repellents safe to use? And do I really need them in Australia?">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deanna Grant-Smith, Professor of Management, University of the Sunshine Coast Vishnu R Nair/Pexels Around Australia, music festival season is once again kicking into high gear. Yet behind every headline act is a vast and often invisible workforce of stage crew, sound engineers, lighting techs, riggers, truck drivers, ... <a title="As music festival season ramps up, artists can help shine a light on an ‘invisible’ workforce" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/as-music-festival-season-ramps-up-artists-can-help-shine-a-light-on-an-invisible-workforce-270967/" aria-label="Read more about As music festival season ramps up, artists can help shine a light on an ‘invisible’ workforce">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Will Jeffery, Sessional Academic, Discipline of Film Studies, University of Sydney Psycho (1960) I was recently watching a scene from the 2025 film Weapons for a monograph I’m writing and noticed a familiar sound: a low, unsettling drone as a character walks down a hallway. It’s the ... <a title="The scariest stuff is what you can’t see: how we got the sound of horror films" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/the-scariest-stuff-is-what-you-cant-see-how-we-got-the-sound-of-horror-films-267639/" aria-label="Read more about The scariest stuff is what you can’t see: how we got the sound of horror films">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A tornado have flipped a caravan injuring one person at a motor camp at Lake Dudding in rural Manawatū. Supplied / Rangitikei District Council A man who was flipped twice in his caravan during a tornado that hit a rural Rangitīkei campground is going to be “traumatised for a little bit”. ... <a title="‘All hell broke loose’: Caretaker describes moment tornado hit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/all-hell-broke-loose-caretaker-describes-moment-tornado-hit/" aria-label="Read more about ‘All hell broke loose’: Caretaker describes moment tornado hit">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Applications for information about a partner’s history of violence have fallen by nearly 75 percent in the last five years. 123RF A UK criminologist is labelling New Zealand’s scheme to allow the disclosure of a partner’s history of violence as a missed opportunity to protect vulnerable people from family harm. Dr ... <a title="Police looking at improving scheme that allows disclosure of history of violence to partners" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/police-looking-at-improving-scheme-that-allows-disclosure-of-history-of-violence-to-partners/" aria-label="Read more about Police looking at improving scheme that allows disclosure of history of violence to partners">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Breakers guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright celebrates Blake Armstrong / PHOTOSPORT Another impressive performance by captain Parker Jackson-Cartwright has given the Breakers their second successive win in the NBL and edged them closer to a place in the final of the Ignite Cup. Jackson-Cartwright hit 24 points as the Breakers beat the Sydney ... <a title="Parker Jackson-Cartwright rescues Breakers as they take down Kings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/parker-jackson-cartwright-rescues-breakers-as-they-take-down-kings/" aria-label="Read more about Parker Jackson-Cartwright rescues Breakers as they take down Kings">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / REECE BAKER One person is seriously injured following a crash in Lower Hutt. Rutherford Street, between Melling Link and Connolly Street, is closed as a result of the single-vehicle crash that occurred around 5.30am on Thursday. Police said the road is expected to be closed “for some time” and ... <a title="Lower Hutt road closed following serious crash, motorists asked to avoid area" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/lower-hutt-road-closed-following-serious-crash-motorists-asked-to-avoid-area/" aria-label="Read more about Lower Hutt road closed following serious crash, motorists asked to avoid area">Read more</a>
